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Journalists Get Their SingStar On @ Lollapalooza

This weekend, PlayStation took center stage at Lollapalooza in Chicago. In addition to participating in various show events, we invited media to the Windy City to experience our holiday social game lineup. On Friday night, we took over the House of Blues and announced the November 13th launch date of SingStar PS3 and the first 15 of 30 songs that will be on the Bluray disc. The best part of the night was the contest. Six journalists got the chance to try and sing their way to a PS3 and an early copy of SingStar PS3. After narrowing it down to the top three, each then had to do their best rendition of Been Caught Stealing by Jane’s Addiction. We recorded the performances via PLAYSTATION Eye and Perry Farrell made a surprise visit to pick the winner. Congratulations to Jose Sanchez of Electric Playground who was crowned the king of SingStar – if only you could have seen him sing the encore with Perry as all of us screamed along in the background. Congrats to second place winner Greg Miller of IGN and third place winner Sterling McGarvey of GameSpy. You guys rock!

Sing Star looks to be a fun title and a perfect addition to anyone who has Karaoke parties…which I just happen to have!!!
I am also extremely bummed that I missed Lollapalooza as the show this year was incredible…now you guys just gave me one more reason to feel bad:( haha.

Great to see the PlayStation Eye getting some real world beta testing.

I think the Playstation Eye/Toy has the potential to be way better than the Wiimote if only game developers could write interesting games/simulations for it. Think Total Recall when Sharon Stone is practising tennis ( or was that Minority Report ), but you get the idea.

If any of you guys at Sony or if any of the PR people are reading this I have a good idea for Sing Star. I know that the game is not very popular in America but I was thinking that since it is a singing game that when American Idol starts you should advertise the game there during commercials. I know the game will probably be out but I know that will be a good marketing move for you guys. I also know that to have commercials during American Idol season Fox charges alot. But think of it everyone watches American Idol especially the beginning to see people make fools of themselves so if you advertise a Singing game on American Idol you guys will get a lot of peoples attention. Just some thought. That could help Americans get into the game and can also invite more cauals into the Sony Brand.

Looks like you guys had a blast. Thanks for the post. I am going to have a blast with this game.
I would love to see the videos. Why don’t you guys just post them on here. Just post direct links to the videos. No need to post them on You tube.

@ Sony,
I have an idea that would be nice for downloadable songs for all Music games. Sony is alredy planning to launch music in their PSN Store so why not:
When you download a video it ask you 1080p HD,HD, SD. Why not with music if it ask you Dowload for GH3, Rock Band, Sing Star, or All. This would be great1!!
Anyway Singstar looks okay

I can see that being slightly possible for Sing Star Kpepe, but when it comes to Guitar Hero 3/Rock Band, Red Octane/Harmonix would be the ones who’d have to make a compatible version of the song for the game.

That is unless the game automatically creates the button track thing that you have to play to go along with the song.

Its a real shame, how can you – Sony – release Singstar for the PS3 with wired mic’s when we were promised all new wireless bluetooth mics……what is the problem???? Connections issues??? If so just say so, just say that singstar will be released with wired mics and that there will be no plans for wireless mics in the future due to tech problems.

Also, whats with the EYE????? No one has heard or seen this baby in like months, is it coming???? when is it coming???? how much will it cost??? I assume most of these things will be revealed at LEIPZIG ( at least i hope), enough of the Bull…just be honest and tell the paying public what the problems are, i for one am not buying Singstar until there are wireless mic’s…

I would buy this if I still had my group of friends. All the trailers from singstar and info seem pretty cool, but I can’t sing. I don’t really do any of those rhythm games except para para paradise and Dance Dance Revolution. Never been good at the singing, but this game looks so damn fun. *tear*

Ok, this maybe the wrong section to ask, but can you see the videos on PSN? I mean, it’s supposed to be all about social gaming and networking, so people who don’t even have a copy of Singstar should just be able to goto PSN and download videos of the best performances, the vids should NOT be limited to just the in-game hud or whatever.

Anyway, that’s my only real gripe. I haven’t seen much talk about this, I just heard that Singstar could possibly have it’s own section on PSN.

I’m nitpicking about Singstar, but opening up the videos to EVERYONE I think is a good reason to buy a PS3. Your automatically showing off your game to Every Ps3 owner that’s connected online without them hearing about it, or reading the review/preview/impressions or anything.

I think people will get a kind of celebrity feeling if there performances are available for download directly from PSN–I know it would be awesome to see myself up there!

Like others have said, I’d love to see more of a Hip Hop & Alternative aspect in Sing Star. When you think about it Rap songs are pretty easy to sing to, mostly because there is so much focus on the lyrics.

I think an interesting application of its motion sensing capabilities would be allowing you to navigate the XMB through hand movements. Sort of like that Minority Report computer without the hologram screen. Either that or incorporate the voice recognition to do the same thing.

Both would probably be little more than a novelty but i’d be impressed with either one. Of course Sony probably has more important things on their plate but just thought i’d throw out the ideas.